Benin women's national football team

Benin

Association	Fédération Béninoise de Football
Sub-confederation	WAFU (West Africa)
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Head coach	Vacant
Captain	None
Most caps	Unknown
Top scorer	Bouraïma Bathily (1)
Home stadium	Stade de l'Amitié
FIFA code	BEN
FIFA ranking	133 8[1]
Highest FIFA ranking	92 (December 2009)
Lowest FIFA ranking	144 (December 2007)
First colours Second colours
First international
Benin 1–0 Malawi  ( Benin; February 19, 2006)
Biggest win
Benin 1–0 Malawi  ( Benin; February 19, 2006)  Benin 3–2 Guinea  (Dakar; May 17, 2006)
Biggest defeat
Senegal 5–1 Benin  (Dakar; May 19, 2006
World Cup
Appearances	0
African Women's Championship
Appearances	0

The Benin women's national football team represents Benin in international women's football and it's controlled by the Fédération Béninoise de Football. They never reached the African Championship or the World Cup finals.

Benin's participation in the African Championships consists of one qualification tournament, in 2006. Benin beat Malawi at home, and therefore moved through the first qualification round. They then drew 1-1 with Ivory Coast, and won on a penalty shootout. In the second round, Benin met Mali, and lost both matches.

Benin also entered the 2008 African Championships, but pulled out before the tournament began. Their home defeat to Mali was therefore the last match Benin played.

History

2006 African Women's Championship

The first team of Benin disputed its first match against Malawi on February 19, 2006; for the 2006 African Women's Championship, who was held in Nigeria. Benin won the match by a score of 1–0, but the goalscorer is unknown. The second leg was disputed on February 26, 2006; this time it ended with a 0–0 draw. Benin advanced to the First Round due to an aggregate of 1–0. In the First Round, Benin was paired with Ivory Coast and draw both matches by 1–1. Benin won in a Penalty shoot-out by 4–3. Benin advanced to the Second Round. In the Second Round, Benin met Mali. In the first leg, on July 22, 2006; Benin lost the match by 3–1, and the goal was scored by Bouraïma Bathily, the only known goalscorer for Benin. The second leg was a loss and also the last match that Benin played, in which they lost by 1–0. Thus, Benin was eliminated from the tournament by an aggregate of 4–1.

2008 Olympic Games qualifying

Benin was paired with Namibia in the preliminary round for the 2008 Olympic Games Football Tournament, but it withdrew.

2008 African Women's Championship

Again Benin withdrew from a tournament, after being paired with Guinea in the First Round of the 2008 African Women's Championship qualification. The tournament was held in Equatorial Guinea.

Competition Records

World Cup record

World Cup Finals
Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
1991	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	0/7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

African Women's Championship record

African Women's Championship
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1991	Did Not Enter
1995
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006	Did Not Qualify
2008	Withdrew
2010	Did Not Enter
2012
2014
2016	To Be Determined
Total	0/12	-	-	-	-	-	-

Olympic Games record

Summer Olympics
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1996	Did Not Enter
2000
2004
2008	Withdrew
2012	Did Not Enter
2016	To Be Determined
Total	0/6	0	0	0	0	0	0

All-Africa Games record

All-Africa Games
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
2003	Did Not Enter
2007
2011
2015	To Be Determined
Total	0/4	0	0	0	0	0	0

Official Record

Partial results are shown in parentheses

Date	Location	Home team	Score	Away team	Source
19 February 2006	Benin	Benin	1–0	Malawi
26 February 2006	Malawi	Malawi	0–0	Benin
12 March 2006	Cotonou	Benin	1–1 (1–0)	Ivory Coast	[2]
24 March 2006	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	1–1 (0–0) 3–4 PSO	Benin	[2]
17 May 2006	Dakar	Benin	3–2	Guinea
19 May 2006	Dakar	Senegal	5–1	Benin
21 May 2006	Dakar	Benin	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Ivory Coast	[2]
29 May 2006	Cotonou	Benin	2–3 (2–2)	Equatorial Guinea
22 July 2006	Bamako	Mali	3–1 (1–0)	Benin
27 July 2006	Cotonou	Benin	1–2	Congo
6 August 2006	Cotonou	Benin	0–1 (0–0)	Mali
27–29 October 2007		Benin	(w/o)	Namibia
30 November 2007		Guinea	(w/o)	Benin

All-time record

• Correct as of November 5, 2014

Against	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD
Congo	1	0	0	1	1	2	-1
Equatorial Guinea	1	0	0	1	2	3	-1
Guinea	1	1	0	0	3	2	+1
Ivory Coast	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1
Malawi	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1
Mali	2	0	0	2	1	4	-3
Senegal	1	0	0	1	1	5	−4
Total	11	3	3	5	14	20	−6

Coaches

• Unknown (2006)

See also

• Benin national football team
• African Women's Championship
• List of women's national football teams

References